ctd architects award winning sensitive conversions of 17th & 18th Century agricultural buildings, farmhouses and mill buildings has helped create high-quality wedding and hospitality venues Through careful and considered conservation and design the buildings have been creatively re-used and revitalised as a sustainable rural enterprise thus securing their long term conservation for future generations The Ashes is a Grade II* Listed 17th-century Gentleman’s country house and collection of 17th-18th century stone outbuildings and barns which are Grade II Listed in their own right, Awarded Architecture and Urban Design Award 2009 by North Staffordshire Regeneration Partnership. Darley Abbey Mills, Change of use and conversion of largely redundant, Grade I Listed, historic cotton spinning mill buildings within the Darley Abbey Mills ‘complex’, located to the north of Derby city centre, recipient of the Derby Civic Society ‘George Larkin Brighter City’ award Dodford Manor, conversion of the existing buildings and new-build timber-framed banqueting barn in the grounds of an 18th century Georgian farmhouse has helped create a high-quality wedding and hospitality venue adjacent to the Grade I Listed St. Marys church. This charming group of former agricultural buildings had lain unused and un-economic for 20 years, until an energetic and discerning client purchased the former Manor house and farmstead in December 2009.